At first I cringed. "Alicia Keys? Her voice is terrible!" But then her point about the rawness of her voice meshing well with the rawness of the White Stripes's sound actually makes sense. White will produce and play drums.

At first I cringed. "Alicia Keys? Her voice is terrible!" But then her point about the rawness of her voice meshing well with the rawness of the White Stripes's sound actually makes sense. White will produce and play drums.

I can't really say I am an Alicia Keys fan, but to describe her voice as terrible?

Been obsessed with the first four songs on an Of Montreal Record. They totally won me over with this couplet, "On our trip to England I noticed something obscene
People still actually give a shit about the Queen"

Also saw the Subways last Friday who put on a great show. First time I'd jumped around in a pit in.....well let's just say too long.

I can't really say I am an Alicia Keys fan, but to describe her voice as terrible?

Well, her voice is nice for the limited range she has. I really enjoy Fallin', You Don't Know My Name, A Woman's Worth, and If I Ain't Got You. But, my god, listen to her latest big hit "No One." Great song, but she's overextending her range big time there. It's painful to my ears.

They're getting prepared to haul a car out of the river
Noise and smoke and concrete seem to be going on forever
Grinding gears and drivers getting high on exhaust
I'm thinking about the water down below and what got lost
Pachinko jingle and space torpedo beams
Comic book violence and escaping steam
Grey suited business men pissing against the wall --
Cut to crumbling guardrail, slow motions car fall
Oh Tokyo -- I never can sleep in your arms
Mind keeps on ringing like a fire alarm
Me and all these other dice bouncing around in the cup
Did you have to show me that accident scene
Didn't I get enough shaking up?
Still I'm gonna miss you...
Dragon of good fortune struggles with trickster fox
Energy and patience and the power of the buck
Tonight I'm flying headlong
To meet the dark red edge of dawn
I know somebody will be crying
And somebody will be gone
Oh Tokyo -- I never can sleep in your arms
Mind keeps on ringing like a fire alarm
Me and all these other dice bouncing around in the cup
Did you have to show me that accident scene
Didn't I get enough shaking up?
Still I'm gonna miss you...

In our desire to impose form on the world we have lost the capacity to see the form that is there;and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are. --...

For ages I've contended that Tumbleweed Connection was the greatest Elton John album (and, indeed, one of the best albums of the 1970s), but boy howdy, this one is kicking my ass. I still don't think it's as good as TC, but holy crap, it's a close second.

Gangs are not seen as legitimate, because they don't have control over public schools.